Amendment to the US Senate on elections in Haiti

This week, to the US Senate, Senator Marco Rubio has proposed an amendment to extend the period during which the Secretary of State is obliged to submit an annual report to Congress on the state the progress of the post-earthquake period and the post-earthquake development efforts in Haiti and to extend the scope of the report to include an assessment of the level of fairness of the Haitian elections.

Thus it has been added in point 14 a conjunctural element "to determine whether recent Haitian elections are free, fair and responsive to the people of Haiti" and point 15 "a description of any attempts to disqualify candidates for elected office in Haiti for political reasons."

List of candidates for the presidency expected...

According to sources in the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP), the final list of presidential candidates, could be known this Friday, or a little more 48 hours after the publication of the decisions of the National Office of Electoral Litigation (BCEN) on the candidacies challenged.

Anthony Béneth speaks of injustice and political decision

Anthony Béneth after the National Electoral Office of Litigation (BCEN) has maintained the decision of BCED which recommended his setting aside of the race for the presidency, because of American citizenship, the latter crying injustice, claiming to be the victim of a political decision and claims to have fulfilled all the formalities required by law. https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14167-haiti-flash-laurent-lamothe-excluded-from-presidential-race.html

Ballot 2 turns or transitional government...

Several political actors consider it necessary to adopt the provisions right now in case of postponement of the parliamentary elections scheduled for 9 August 2015. The former Senate President Simon Desras Dieuseul, whose candidacy is uncertain after the decision of BCEN

and in the hands of the CEP, https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14167-haiti-flash-laurent-lamothe-excluded-from-presidential-race.html proposes that upcoming elections are carried out by a transitional government. Edmonde Supplice Beauzile, the General Secretary of the Fusion of Social Democrats (FUSION), is opposed to a transitional government responsible for organizing elections and instead favors the organization of elections in two rounds.

8 Candidates of KID requires their reintegration into competition

Although the Provisional Electoral Council (CEP) has informed that it was no longer appeal after publication of the final list of candidates for the Senates and for Deputies, 8 parliamentary candidates under the banner of the KID, sidelined by CEP, requires their reinstatement in the race, qualifying the rejection of their candidacy, of political decision, pointingAnthony Mathieu Chérubin, the former Director of Legal Affairs of the CEP recently revoked https://www.haitilibre.com/en/news-14088-haiti-news-electoral-zapping.html

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